Items on Neonatal Health and Neonatal Mortality, 2018

Monday, 10th of December 2018

Items on Neonatal Health and Neonatal Mortality, 2018

Please find below the postings on neonatal health and mortality appearing on www.childsurvival.net since 1 January 2018. For an analysis of neonatal mortality in East and West Africa, consult item 14. For a review of Rwanda’s successful efforts against neonatal mortality, see item 15.

Item 10 looks at the sex gap in neonatal mortality.

The three meta-analyses, items 1, 20 and 24, review the evidence on efficacy of three different interventions against neonatal mortality.

A community-based cluster randomised controlled trial in rural Bangladesh to evaluate the impact of the use of iron-folic acid supplements early in pregnancy on the risk of neonatal mortality: the Shonjibon trial.